::1999:: In interviews throughout the year Pete drew parallels from the compressed life experiences sought on the Grid by characters in Lifehouse to the increasingly real experiences available on the Internet. He also pointed to activities far more disturbing than anything he had previously imagined. He told the BBC that any child innocently entering naughty words into a search engine could quickly be exposed to hardcore pornography. The Internet, he warned, is a terrifyingly unpoliced medium where your ten year old child, in my case - my ten year old child, could quite easily switch on and be subjected to the pornographic machinations of the Russian Mafia. September: Officers from the Dallas police, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Department of Justice raided Landslide Productions, Inc, a portal site in Texas that provided access to hundreds of child abuse web sites, including many based in Russia and Thailand. Landslide processed credit cards for over 300,000 subscribers. Investigators launched a follow-on investigation, named Operation Avalanche, that operated undercover for the next two years. Part of its work entailed deciphering the encrypted credit card files and assembling suspect lists of the thousands who paid to enter the web site. Petes credit card information, along with thousands of other UK citizens, was among those recovered and later sent to authorities in London.